This course is a study of major texts representing the principal theories concerning knowledge, reality, and value developed in the 17th and 18th centuries from the standpoints of rationalism (Descartes and Leibniz) and empiricism (Locke and Hume), concluding with Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy.

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